Mar 31 2013
When you double click on a file on a Mac the operating system looks at what kind of file it is and launches the appropriate application. At least thats the plan. Sometimes it gets it wrong and it launches a program that you last used when American Idol was a popular show or maybe the …
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Mar 30 2013
When I purchased my first colour inkjet printer I was sure that trips to the photo lab would be a thing of the past. Surely now I had the power to print any photo I wanted, at anytime, and stick it in a frame. Of course I could do all this, but at a hefty …
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Jan 14 2013
In the past some spotty faced geek would decide that it has nothing better to do than to make our lives a misery by writing a virus or punching a hole into a piece of software we all rely on. I gather it has something to do with being inferior or not being breast fed …
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Dec 16 2012
Google announced today that they are discontinuing Active Sync services on their gmail service. This is a very geeky way of saying that Push notification on Mail applications on the iPhone and Windows phones will not longer work making gmail useless on those devices. While this can be described as diabolical on the part of …
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Nov 20 2012
If you’ve recently purchased a Mac you might be surprised to learn that came with inbuilt dictation. And not only that but, in a quiet environment, it works without the need for additional hardware such as microphones. To get it working simply: 1. Go to Apple menu choose System Preferences. 2. Click on the Dictation …
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